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Yuichi Yokoyama (横山裕一, Yokoyama Yūichi, born April 3, 1967) is a Japanese manga artist, illustrator and painter.

Life
He graduated from Musashino Art University in 1990 with a degree in oil painting. After graduation, he first focused on painting, but didn't have enough money to buy oil paint, so he used plywood and house paint instead. He applied for different art contests, but didn't get any prizes. Eventually, he won a contest by an illustration magazine instead and he started to work in illustration in order to make a living.

Eventually, he shifted his expression towards manga, as he wanted to express serial pictures rather than single pictures. Yokoyama made his debut as a professional manga artist in 1995. He regularly published in the annual alternative manga magazine Comic Cue in the 2000s.

https://urano.tokyo/en/artists/yokoyama_yuichi/

https://www.avclub.com/yuichi-yokoyama-s-iceland-highlights-how-loud-comics-ca-1803757131

https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%A8%AA%E5%B1%B1%E8%A3%95%E4%B8%80_(%E6%BC%AB%E7%94%BB%E5%AE%B6)

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y%C5%ABichi_Yokoyama

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuichi_Yokoyama

Style
Yokoyama's works are considered avant-garde manga. Yokoyama's works are not focused on storytelling; he himself says storytelling is not important to him.

Sound words are very prominent in his work, usually represented in an unusually large manner. Ryan Holmberg writes that World Map Room and Iceland "are crammed so heavily with roaring sound effects that the human figures are forced to navigate not just other people and physical obstacles but also sensorial invasions of visual and aural noise."

Influences: Tadashi Kawamata's People Garden